posted 05. April 200602:55 AM
Comment: Do you know anything about the so-called "husband stitch" givento women following an episiotomy? Supposedly, it's an extra stitch used tosew up the tear that's for her partner's benefit, by making her "tighter."

All I've found while googling is from message boards and what not, eitherfeminists speaking out against the practice or men bragging about howtheir wife got one. So does this actually happen? Do doctors sew up womentighter than they were before, in order for sex to be more enjoyable forthe husband?
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posted 05. April 200603:50 AM
My hubby joked about this with the doc after DS was born. But after thinking about it, it's not just the external that is looser but more the internal muscle structure that has been weakened and stretched. And any docter that would do that at the hubby's request is just setting themselves up for a malpractice suit, and OB/GYN's are already having to be super careful and pay more and more in insurance, seems pretty unlikely to me.

I've heard of such things - not in terms that they do it purposefully, but that the practitioners used to endorse the benefits of episiotomies in terms of "restoring wives to like-virginal condition". That's probably where the idea got started, or so I'd guess. I am against them, myself, but only for the fact that there's not a lot of proof that they do what they're supposed to do, and there is in fact evidence to suggest that they actually make vaginal tearing worse than it usually is.
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posted 07. April 200604:02 AM
I was cut very deeply when I had my DD - in fact, he cut twice (not 2 different ones - cut once, then cut again to make it deeper). I had internal and external stitches and I did end up a little tighter than I was before, but I know it wasn't intentional.
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